One of my lib friends on Facebook trotted out a story from The Examiner, based on a Boston Globe story, about a head-on collision in which Romney was involved when he was a missionary in France (1968). Supposedly, the priest driving the car that hit Romney’s car was drunk. One of Romney’s passengers died in the wreck. Romney was in a coma, but came out of it with a broken arm, lacerations, and I can’t remember what else. The tone of the Examiner article read something like, “How do we know that Mitt Romney was not driving drunk? No toxicology or sobriety tests were done. The French police dispose of their records after 10 years. The only people who are still alive who could tell us have all been Romney’s friends for over 40 years [so of course, we can’t trust anything THEY say]”.
So I answered her: 1) Romney is a Mormon. Mormons don’t drink alcoholic beverages. 2) One of the passengers in his car was the President of the French Mormon mission. He’s a 21yo kid, looking to make an impression. Do you think he would be drunk in her presence? 3)All we have is conjecture and speculation. Stick a fork in it.
Nicely done!